Manufacturing Method of Stacked Electrodes By Winding Type Electrode Stacking and Stacked Electrode Thereby

• US 20100319187A1
• Filed: 08/28/2009
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Enertech International, Inc. (Ener1, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Enertech International, Inc. (Ener1, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Han Sung, Kim, Young Jae, Woo, Jong Man, Kim, Gyu Sik
• Application Number:
  US12/549,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20100319187A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 29/623.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0525 Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0583 of accumulators with folded construction elements except wound ones, i.e. folded positive or negative electrodes or separators, e.g. with "Z"-shaped electrodes or separators
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49108 Electric battery cell making

Abstract

The present invention relates to a electrode stacking method, wherein electrodes are stacked in such a manner that the electrodes are disposed to face each other on both sides of a separation layer to which predetermined tension force is applied along the longitudinal direction of said separation layer, and the electrode assembly is turned so that another separation layer is formed outside the electrodes. According to the rechargeable lithium ion batteries in accordance with the present invention, the electrode stack in which the arrangement of anode electrodes and cathode electrodes is not disordered because uniform stress is applied to the entire battery and the separation layer maintains a constant tension force can be fabricated. Accordingly, the lifespan of a rechargeable lithium ion battery can be increased, and the input and output characteristic of the battery can be improved.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a electrode stack for a rechargeable lithium ion battery, the method comprising the steps of:

forming a unit electrode body by staking a separation layer to which predetermined tension force is applied along the longitudinal direction of said separation layer, a first electrode on a side of the separation layer, and a second electrode on the other side of the separation layer;

winding the unit electrode body by 180°

around a rotation axis which is located at a center of the unit electrode body and is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the separation layer, thereby completing a first-step stack;

stacking a third electrode on the separation layer placed outside the first electrode and a fourth electrode on the separation layer placed outside the second electrode and then winding the unit electrode body by 180°

around the same rotation axis in the same direction, thereby completing a second-step stack; and

stacking a predetermined number of electrodes through repetitive stacking and winding of the electrodes in the same manner and then driving both ends of the separation layer to one side, thereby completing a final electrode stack.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the first electrode and the fourth electrode have a same polarity as an anode or a cathode, and the second electrode and the third electrode have a same polarity as a cathode or an anode, but have a different polarity from the first electrode and the fourth electrode.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the first electrode and the second electrode of the unit electrode body are single side electrodes, and the single side electrodes are arranged so that inactive faces are opposed each other with the separation layer interposed there-between.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the single side electrodes with the separation layer interposed there-between have anode and anode polarities, cathode and cathode polarities, or anode and cathode polarities, respectively.

5. An electrode stack for a rechargeable lithium ion battery fabricated according to claim 1.

6. An electrode stack for a rechargeable lithium ion battery fabricated according to claim 2.

7. An electrode stack for a rechargeable lithium ion battery fabricated according to claim 3.

8. An electrode stack for a rechargeable lithium ion battery fabricated according to claim 4.

9. A rechargeable lithium ion battery using the electrode stack according to claim 5.